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  • 11-11-2014 7:34pm
    #1
    tinner777
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    house built ten years ago with cables thrown into attic. Thing is none of them are labelled etc.. Is there a quick way to check which is which without running up and down the attic stairs and connecting a skybox to them??

    Also i know splitters are a bad idea however would i get away with using one for a box that is hardly used (has a old uk card that i use just for radio connected to a sky gnome) and the other the kids use for cartoons.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    winston_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭winston_1


    tinner777 wrote: »
    Hi,

    house built ten years ago with cables thrown into attic. Thing is none of them are labelled etc.. Is there a quick way to check which is which without running up and down the attic stairs and connecting a skybox to them??

    Also i know splitters are a bad idea however would i get away with using one for a box that is hardly used (has a old uk card that i use just for radio connected to a sky gnome) and the other the kids use for cartoons.

    Thanks

    Put a battery across a cable, then go into the attic with a multimeter to find which one it is. Label it and move on to the next.

    You cannot use splitters on satellite installations, as the box sends control signals to the LNB.


  • #3
    tinner777
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭tinner777


    thanks


  • #4
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    winston_1 wrote: »
    Put a battery across a cable, then go into the attic with a multimeter to find which one it is. Label it and move on to the next.

    You cannot use splitters on satellite installations, as the box sends control signals to the LNB.

    If you have a multimeter, you don't need a battery. Just twist the outer and inner cores of the coax together and check for continuity with the meter.

    You could make up a dummy piece with a short piece of coax, twist one end of it as described, put a coax connector on the other and use a coax to coax connector to attach it to the various cables in turn. It will save you taking the connectors off each of the cables it there are a few!


  • #5
    steveon
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    You could buy a cable mapper and do 8 at a time, I can highly recommend this tool...but if only for a once off mite be a little expensive for you...

    http://www.satworld.ie/8-way-coaxial-cable-mapper.html


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